Food for Thoughts

This is Thursday June 12^th, 2008

Good morning and may you have an inspiring and fulfilling day.

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Quotes for the Day:

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Pierre Corneille

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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Today’s Thoughts

Dearly beloved,

After sending you that email about “God bless you!” at that high school graduation program yesterday it got me to thinking about various signs of the times that we see all around us today and what the Bible has to say concerning “Sign of the Times” shortly before Jesus comes back.

So I went digging in some things I have and came up with something of a spiritually “meatier” substance which the Lord laid on my heart to share with you.

It’s a little longer than what I want to send out in one email so I am going to make this a 4-part series. I hope that it will be a blessing and encouragement to you knowing a scriptural layout of the future.

With love, Tony

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW YOUR FUTURE?

Pt. 1 - --Here It Is!--The Events of things to come!

1. THE BIBLE & THE WORDS OF GOD'S PROPHETS ARE ACTUALLY THE ONLY REAL NEWSPAPERS, OR NEWSBOOKS, IN THE WORLD!--All other newspapers tell you what already happened yesterday, so they're not really news papers, they're history papers! But the Bible tells us what is going to happen tomorrow! It is full of thousands of detailed prophecies, actually describing specific people, places, times, situations & events thousands of years before they came into being! (<\\Isa.34:16&&PUB=Isa:34:16^>; <\\42:9&&PUB=isa:42:9^>; <\\2Pe.1:19-21&&PUB=2Pet:1:19^3>)

2. MANY OF THESE PROPHECIES ARE ABOUT THE FINAL PERIOD OF WORLD HISTORY, just before Jesus returns to stop all of today's wickedness & to set up His Own Kingdom of Love & Peace on Earth. These last final days of man's kingdoms on Earth are known in the Bible as the "Time of the End", the "Latter Days", the "Last Days", etc.--the time in which you & I are now living! (<\\Dan.2:28&&PUB=Dan:2:28^>; <\\8:23&&PUB=dan:8:23^>; <\\12:4&&PUB=dan:12:4^>)

3. WHEN JESUS' DISCIPLES WANTED TO KNOW THE FUTURE & ASKED HIM, "WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN OF THY COMING & OF THE END OF THE WORLD?", He didn't reply with only one sign, but with dozens! In fact, the Bible gives us hundreds of "signs of the times", signs & signals that we are to look out for so that we can know exactly how close to the very End we are! (<\\Mt.24:All&&PUB=Mat:24:1>)

4. THESE SIGNS INCLUDE: A DRAMATIC UPSURGE IN "FAMINES, PESTILENCES & EARTHQUAKES IN DIVERS PLACES" (<\\Mt.24:7&&PUB=Mat:24:7^>), "the Gospel being preached in all the World for a witness to all nations" (<\\Mt.24:14&&PUB=Mat:24:14^>), a drastic increase in international travel, with "many running to & fro, wandering from sea to sea, as knowledge is greatly increased". (<\\Dan.12:4&&PUB=Dan:12:4^>; <\\Amos 8:11,12&&PUB=Amos:8:11^2>)--A great "falling away" (<\\2Th.2:3&&PUB=2Thes:2:3^>) from the Lord as "evil men & seducers grow worse & worse, deceiving many". (<\\2Ti.3:13&&PUB=2Tim:3:13^>)--"The love of many growing cold" (<\\Mt.24:12&&PUB=Mat:24:12^>), resulting in "distress of nations upon the Earth & men's hearts failing them for fear"! (<\\Lk.21:25,26&&PUB=Lk:21:25^2>)--Signs which are all obviously being fulfilled today more than ever before!

5. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT & FINAL SIGNS OF THE VERY END THAT MANY PROPHETS PREDICTED IS THE RISE OF A TOTALLY GODLESS ANTI-CHRIST WORLD GOVERNMENT led by a demonic dictator who will actually be Devil-possessed by Satan himself! He will come on the scene with a 7-year agreement or Covenant in which he will promise the World peace & religious freedom, & he will somehow settle the current crisis in the Mid-East by working out a compromise between the Arabs & the Jews, enabling the Jews to rebuild their Temple on Mt. Moriah, Jerusalem, where their ancient Temple once stood & where the Muslim "Dome of the Rock" Mosque stands today. (<\\Dan.8:23-25&&PUB=Dan:8:23^3>; <\\2Th.2:1-4&&PUB=2Thes:2:1^4>; <\\Dan.9:27&&PUB=Dan:9:27^>) His reign could begin in 1986!

6. DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE ANTICHRIST'S 7-YEAR COVENANT people are going to think that he is wonderful, as he will have brought peace, restored the World's economy, solved the Mid-East crisis, etc. But suddenly, half-way through his 7-year reign, he will break the Covenant, invade Israel from the North, & will forbid & abolish all traditional religious worship, declaring that he himself is God & demanding that all the World worship him! (<\\Dan.9:27&&PUB=Dan:9:27^>; <\\8:9-12&&PUB=dan:8:9^4>; <\\11:21-24,28-31,36&&PUB=dan:11:21^16>; <\\2Th.2:3,4,8,9&&PUB=2Thes:2:3^7>.)

7. AT THIS TIME HE WILL PLACE AN IDOL, AN IMAGE OF HIMSELF, IN THE REBUILT JEWISH TEMPLE, an "Abomination of Desolation" which will probably be some kind of a computerised robot, as it will speak & somehow even cause those who refuse to worship it to be killed! Jesus Himself said that when you see this idol, this Abomination of Desolation, standing there in the Temple, then would begin the last 3-1/2 years of man's rule on Earth, a time of "Great Tribulation"! (<\\Dan.11:31&&PUB=Dan:11:31^>; <\\12:11&&PUB=dan:12:11^>; <\\Mt.24:15-21&&PUB=Mat:24:15^7>; <\\Rev.13:14,15&&PUB=Rev:13:14^2>.)

8. DURING THIS 3-1/2 YEAR PERIOD PEOPLE WON'T USE PAPER MONEY ANYMORE because the Antichrist government is going to set up a One-World-Credit System, & all members of the System who reject Jesus & worship this Antichrist will be permanently branded with a credit number in their hands or foreheads! The Antichrist government will use this new credit system to try to force everybody to either worship the Antichrist or starve to death, because no one will be able to buy or sell without this number or "Mark of the Beast"!--But God's children will refuse to worship him or receive his Mark!--And the Lord will take care of us, even if He has to drop manna from Heaven to feed us! (<\\Rev.13:16-18&&PUB=Rev:13:16^3>; <\\12:6,14&&PUB=rev:12:6^9>)

9. AND WHILE THE ANTICHRIST & HIS FOLLOWERS ARE PERSECUTING & TRYING TO GET GOD'S CHILDREN, God is going to let loose pestilences & plagues & even strange monsters which will attack these wicked people of the Devil! These days of the Tribulation will be like the last days of the children of Israel in Egypt!--God's prophets will be doing great & mighty signs, wonders & miracles to defend the Gospel & God's children while God plagues their enemies! (<\\Rev.7:3&&PUB=Rev:7:3^>; <\\9:1-11&&PUB=rev:9:1^11>; <\\11:3-6&&PUB=rev:11:3^4>)

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Prayer Requests

Please continue to keep our daughter, Kerri in our prayers. As of today she is still not able to keep anything in and apparently the doctor doesn’t know what it is. She had an appointment with another doctor, a specialist, today but aside from telling her that he didn’t think she looked sick he couldn’t diagnose why she has been unable to eat anything for 4 days. He told her to go home and eat something which she did. Shad had some yogurt and threw it up. If she isn’t better in the morning my wife and I are going to take her to the emergency room to see if we can get better results from there.

So please pray that we can get that we can find a good godly doctor and who will be able to properly diagnose the problem and give her the right advice to speed her along to a full recovery. Thank you.

Let’s claim this quote on prayer:

You will heal the sick, cast out devils, command miracles, reverse the times and seasons, change hearts, open the windows of Heaven, release the imprisoned, and overcome all manner of evil and perversion through the power of the keys of the Kingdom.

We had another prayer request from Helen.

“We are praying for Kerri. Let me know how she is getting on .Thank you for all you`ve done, all your prayers.

I also have some prayer requests. Please pray for Nick and his wife Sue. Sue is 7 weeks pregnant and has been told that there is a 90% chance her baby is seriously brain damaged. They are waiting for some test results. They already have 2 children and one is a Downe`s baby.

Please also pray for Cora who has been suffering from breast cancer for 5 years . She now has a lump in her neck and it was found to be malignant.”

Helen

Let’s claim these quotes as we pray for these in need:

All power in Heaven and over Hell is yours for the asking. Call on the keys and it will be delivered unto you.

Nothing is beyond the power of prayer to heal when you claim the keys of miracles.

Prayer does some awesome things beloved. It’s the greatest power we have, greater than anything the devil can throw at us and when used it performs mighty miracles, so don’t be shy of using it on behalf of our friends and loved ones to help them in their battles for healing and life.

* If any of you have some prayer requests please send them in. *

Have a wonderful faith filled day.

Love in our Precious Savior,
Tony